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Jennifer Mendonça

Locke Lord LLP

A Partner in the Public Finance practice group, Jennifer Capasso Mendonça focuses her practice exclusively on all aspects of governmental and tax-exempt finance, as bond counsel, borrower’s counsel, underwriter’s counsel, bank counsel and disclosure counsel in a broad variety of tax-exempt and taxable financings.

Her experience includes general obligation and revenue bonds for state governments; qualified 501(c)(3) bonds for nonprofit institutions including: colleges and universities, secondary schools, hospitals, nursing homes and other healthcare entities, and other charitable organizations; small issue industrial development bonds; exempt facility bonds; and single- and multi-family housing bonds.

She has extensive experience with both fixed rate and variable rate multimodal debt, public offerings and private placement transactions and derivative products. She also has significant public finance tax law expertise, particularly with respect to 501(c)(3) institutions, including assisting clients with IRS audits, VCAP requests, private use analysis and post-issuance compliance.

Before law School, Jennifer worked as a business consultant for Arthur Andersen LLP and Hitachi Consulting in San Francisco. Her work focused primarily on business process redesign for marketing departments at several major software companies on the West Coast. While attending Boston College Law School, Jennifer served as Articles Editor for the Boston College Law Review.

In addition to receiving her J.D., summa cum laude, from Boston College, Jennifer also received a Master’s degree in Higher Education Administration from the Lynch School of Education.

Representative Experience :

  • Experience serving as bond counsel and borrower’s counsel on issues for numerous secondary schools including Boston College High School, Groton School, St. John’s Preparatory School and Xaverian Brothers High School.
  • Serves as bond counsel to the State of Vermont in connection with its general obligation and transportation infrastructure bond financings.
  • Serves as bond counsel with respect to a variety of single family and multifamily mortgage revenue bond financings for the Massachusetts Housing Agency, the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority and the Illinois Housing Finance Development Authority.
  • Serves as bond counsel to the Business Finance Authority of the State of New Hampshire with respect to its revenue bond financings for 501(c)(3) institutions and small manufacturing facilities.
  • Tax counsel to nonprofit borrowers and conduit issuers regarding IRS audits of their tax exempt issues and experience assisting clients with negotiation and settlement with IRS under the Voluntary Closing Agreement Program.
  • Assists clients with conducting private use analysis of bond financed facilities and in developing programs to maintain the compliance of their bond issues with applicable federal tax law requirements after the bonds have been issued.

Professional Affiliations :

  • Honoree, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly 2018 Top Women of Law
  • Member, Massachusetts Bar Association
  • Member, National Association of Bond Lawyers (NABL)

Education :

  • J.D., summa cum laude, Boston College Law School, 2006
  • M.A., Boston College Lynch School of Education, 2006
  • B.S., magna cum laude, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, 2001

Admissions : Massachusetts, 2006

Cost

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